Dispaly operators in JSF dropDown

Question

Hi ,
There is a requirement in my project to add and delete a row onclick of a button.
Each row has a drop down which displays ("<",">","<=",">=") operators.
When i am using the below HTML code for displaying dropdowns ,add and delete functionalities working fine..
<select name="select13" class="TextBlackNormal">
<option>></option>
<option><</option>
<option>>=</option>
<option><=</option>
</select>
But in case of JSF dropdown tag,add and delete fucntionalites are not working onclick of a button.But it displays the dropdown List.
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{ruleBlock.priceRangeFromOperator}">
<f:selectItems value="#{PriceVarianceRuleBean.priceRangeOpeList}"/>
</h:selectOneMenu>
I configured the priceRangeOpeList as
priceRangeOpeList.add(new SelectItem("<","<","<"));
priceRangeOpeList.add(new SelectItem(">",">",">"));
Add and delete functionlaites are working fine if i use below configuration for the drop down.but the the values in the drop down are dispalyed as (>,< like this instead of < , >).So i think the problem is with the operators.Can you please tell me how to display these opearators in the dropdown.
priceRangeOpeList=new ArrayList();
priceRangeOpeList.add(new SelectItem(">",">",">"));
priceRangeOpeList.add(new SelectItem("<","<",">"));
Thanks

Answer 1

You should use HTML entities for reserved HTML characters. The < denotes the start of a HTML tag and the > the end, you do understand?
Instead of < use <
Instead of > use &gt;
Instead of " use &quot;
Instead of ' use &apos;
Instead of & use &amp;
Also see [http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp]
You can escape them "automagically" when using <h:outputText> or <c:out>.